Tag Archives: Shawn Huckins

Shawn Huckins combines Internet culture and 18th- and 19th- century style portraits in his work. He offers a new collection of large acrylic paintings in “Athenaeum (I Can’t Pretend That This Is Poetry,” an upcoming show at Seattle’s Foster/White Gallery. The artist was featured in Hi-Fructose Vol. 32, and he was last featured on HiFructose.com here.

Our next print issue of Hi-Fructose New Contemporary Art Magazine (which arrives in July) features a beautiful cover and feature and a beautifully-printed special 16-page insert by Travis Louie, we chase clouds with the murals and art of Sainer and the ETAM CRU, discover the animal portraits of Susan Siegel, Andy Gilmore’s hallucinatory graphics, Eric Wert’s intense still-lives, Shawn Huckins’s modern painted text messaging meets old masters mash-ups, painter Casey Weldon’s bright and bold surreal works, Mark Gmehling’s 3D distortions, and a major feature on the art of Sam Wolfe Connelly! Plus we journey into hell in with a new stereoscopic book review and take a look at Dima Drjuchin’s Lil Goof and more! Pre-order a copy today! See more sneak peeks of the issue after the jump.